Ian is a captain in the Paras. This week he'll tell the Army he is having a sex change | London Evening Standard

And he was, to all intents and purposes, a model officer. Over the next six years, he served in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq, where he led soldiers from 4 Para, a reserve unit mobilised for service in the Gulf. In 2004, he started working as a staff officer for the Defence Media Operations Centre in Uxbridge, West London, where he was put in charge of media training for military personnel.